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cyras21

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the connectors for my fans aren't molded to ensure the power connectors are in properly. This resulted in me flipping the connectors and damaging my hard drive. the drive will not boot at all. Is it possible to still recover data from it? what program would be best?
 
I dont see how pluging up your fan backward would kill your harddrive. I,ve had a few with just wires and hooked them up backward and all they did was actually turn the wrong way:)
 
Having the power connected backwards would more likely see board damage if anything especially if those were 12v fans. That would send a higher current straight to ground. Hopefully your board has intelligence and a fail safe method where making sure you haven't damaged the board itself and have the fans plugged in correctly will see a clearing of the cmos restore normal use.
 
before i changed the case and power supply everything worked fine. Afterwards when loading it would stop at say "detecting array" it will not load any further. I plugged in another hard drive that isn't formated and loaded to the C:/ I'm assuming everything else is just fine and I'm waiting for a new hard drive to arrive. anything else I can try to see if this drive still works?
 
Was it part of an array or a separate logical drive? If you know someone iwith a live Linux distro like Knoppix or ubuntu live for cd you can boot from the cd and it will show the hard drives and optical as well as desktop icons. There you can open up a working drive and even copy files from it. That would show right off if the drive was in working condition. Otherwise you would have to plan on using a data retrieval program or pay a price for data rescue by a professional service.
 
That was in regard to your mention of detecting array. With second drive seeming to run normal if formatted and OSed you would be better off trying it slaved in another case to see how it acts there and if you can save files from it for restoration on the new one. What make and model is the drive? Different companies have their own diagnostic tools for drives you run from a boot floppy. That would be one thing to try there.
 
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